Morphological assembly mechanisms in Neotropical bat assemblages and ensembles within a landscape

Oecologia

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 133-140

  Moreno, Claudia E ^a   Arita, Héctor T ^b   Solis, Leonor ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Coexistence; Community niche; Null models; Packing

Indexed keywords

BAT; COEXISTENCE; ECOMORPHOLOGY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE; MORPHOLOGY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; BIODIVERSITY; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY WEIGHT; CHIROPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; MEXICO; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WING;

MORMOOPIDAE; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE;

EID: 33748561824     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0417-0     Document Type: Article

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